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The rich have found a way to get richer. And the rest of us are paying for it
Another year, another report showing that the very wealthy pay far less tax on their income than working people do.

He tuhinga poroporoaki mo te ao torangapu o Winston Peters
Mena ko te ra poti te mutunga mo New Zealand First, ka rite te taumaha o te ngaronga atu o tona kaiarahi ki te taumaha o te huruhuru.

The flowers they ordered were delayed. But the online florist didn’t cancel or give a refund.
Two customers say Bloomex didn’t cancel delayed orders, instead offering store credits or requesting perishable flowers be returned.

The last day to campaign for a re-Christening
Power is within reach for one Chris. For the other - it's likely their leadership is over.

The Russell Brand I saw in court was not the flamboyant character most people will know
Brand stood upright in the dock as the verdicts were read out in court - ending this sometimes surreal trial.

Samsung’s 32-inch 1440p gaming monitor plunges to $180, its lowest price
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Stone to be laid for Mobo founder Kanya King
King tirelessly championed music of black origin, and funded the first awards out of her own pocket.

An obituary for Winston Peters’ political life
If election day marks the end of New Zealand First, the weight of its leader’s absence would be but feather-light.

Kiwis are living longer... but there’s a catch. Here’s what the numbers tell us
We're living longer - but not necessarily healthier, new statistics show.

Paula Penfold: Here’s Michael Laws’ form for demeaning women. Why won’t Peters act?
Michael Laws’ misogynistic comments go back more than a decade.

Live: It’s the final day of election campaigning (finally!)
Follow the election campaign live.

My AI agents sent emails without my OK. This simple prompt stops it
All she wanted was help from ChatGPT with her proposal, but soil hydrology researcher Ying Zhao got a lot more than she bargained for. Asking for more maps and metadata about her project—landscape restoration on the Loess Plateau in China—Zhao kept messaging “please continue” to ChatGPT for additional details. Only later...

Windows is no longer the center of the PC universe
For most of my life, talking about “the PC” basically meant talking about Windows. Sure, Macs existed. Linux existed. Weirdos like us knew you could build Hackintoshes, boot obscure Linux distros, and spend an entire Saturday compiling something because it’s fun and interesting, dammit! But Windows was the sun that the...

Russia and Ukraine trade airstrikes as reconstruction and security talks resume in Brussels
The latest Russian aerial barrage underscored the scale of the rebuilding task, as did the ongoing search for people missing beneath rubble after a deadly airstrike in southern Ukraine on Monday.

I vibe-coded a Windows app with ChatGPT. Getting it to work was another story
A decade or so ago, I had a small utility application that I would use for batch resizing a number of photos. I have no idea who coded it or where I even originally found it, but it was a specialized app for a specialized purpose and I’m lucky I...